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The past chromatic pillar of Veeravasantharayar mandapam successful Meenakshi Sundareswarar temple that was destroyed successful a occurrence successful 2018 was erected arsenic portion of the reconstruction enactment connected Thursday.
The occurrence that broke retired from a store damaged respective chromatic pillars of the mandapam. The reconstruction enactment was sanctioned astatine a outgo of ₹35.30 crore, a connection said.
Stones were chopped from a hillock successful Rasipuram successful Namakkal territory and were brought to Koodal Sengulam workplace belonging to the temple. The pillar sculpturing works were carried retired by Spathi V.P. Velmurugan of Tiruppur.
A full of 65,000 cubic feet of stones were brought and 79 pillars were carved out. The last pillar was erected successful the beingness of Joint Commissioner and Temple Executive Officer N. Suresh, members of the Board of Trustees and different officials.
